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IRS says it will get a warrant before using cell-site simulators

02

Dec

2015

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is drafting a policy to restrict the use without a warrant of cell-site simulator technology to snoop on the location and other information from mobile phones. The head of the IRS, John Koskinen, wrote in a letter that the agency was drafting a policy that would mirror an earlier Department […]

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IRS enhances efforts to combat identity fraud, claiming upcoming tax season will be ‘more secure’

21

Oct

2015

The Internal Revenue Service and private tax preparers say they are beefing up efforts to limit tax-related #identity theft for the 2016 filing season, testing more than 20 new safeguards to protect taxpayers’ sensitive information. The #irs, state tax authorities and tax preparation companies will begin sharing details about suspicious tax returns as they are […]

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The challenges of implementing tokenization in a medium-sized enterprise

23

Jul

2015

We have seen a concerning pattern in the recent data breaches, including the breach at the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) and other US government agencies in that the primary target was Social Security Numbers (SSN) and other Personal Identifying Information (PII). Criminals typically started by stealing data from smaller, less protected organizations and then used […]

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